The Posthuman Dada Guide

This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life."¿The Posthuman Dada Guide

The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world¿all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism. This epic game at Zurich''s Caf¿e la Terrasse¿a battle between radical visions of art and ideological revolution¿lasted for a century and may still be going on, although communism appears dead and Dada stronger than ever. As the poet faces the future mass murderer over the chessboard, neither realizes that they are playing for the world. Taking the match as metaphor for two poles of twentieth- and twenty-first-century thought, politics, and life, Andrei Codrescu has created his own brilliantly Dadaesque guide to Dada¿and to what it can teach us about surviving our ultraconnected present